Info: All the organizers ask for is a love offering to benefit Dream Home Charities

ALTON — Anyone can see some great gospel singing at Beltline Christian Center’s benefit concert and the church is simply asking for a love donation to support a charity.

The Gospel Music Benefit features four gospel groups or artist who include First Calling, New Jerusalem Singers, Saved by Grace and soloist Paul Summers. The concert, benefiting Dream Home Charities, is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, at Beltline Christian Center, 310 Oakwood Ave., Alton.

Riverbend nonprofit Dream Home Charities give 100 percent of all donations received back to its community to help other community charities help the less fortunate.

First Calling is a southern gospel group with a blend of three-part harmony, who minister love, encouragement, hope and healing through their music.

The New Jerusalem Singers, formed in 1989, sing southern and country gospel music.

“We’ve had the opportunity to minister the gospel through music in churches with various affiliations, crossing denominational lines, as well as in independent churches. It does not matter where we go to sing, we want Jesus to be uplifted,” the trio of singers stated on their website.

The New Jerusalem Singers sing old hymns, as well as older well-known songs. In 2008, the group released a hymn CD, “I Know He Will Bless,” which also includes original songs. Each subsequent year they released CDs, titled “Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Amazing Grace” and “Down Home Christmas,” respectively. They then released their next CD “Redeemed!” in 2013, followed by three-disc set “Lifting Up Jesus For 25 Years,” which includes 50 songs, some never released before.

Saved By Grace is made up of a husband-and-wife duo Ken and Carla Wise. Ken’s easygoing manner attracts people from all walks of life, states the couple’s website. His straightforward testimony lets everyone know that he credits himself today as being saved by grace as stated in his favorite scripture and the inspiration for the name of the group, Ephesians 2:8.

Carla grew up in Kane and went to Kane Baptist Church, where she was saved and baptized at age 12.

Summers’ interest is simple — to bring a message of hope, deliverance, healing and salvation to those who are in need, he states on his website.

“To show those who hear the music that God truly cares and he is there for whatever you need when you need it,” he said. “He has never left us or forsaken us. I want to change the world with the music that God has given me.”

First Calling

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Paul Summers

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Saved By Grace

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